IMPALA-12986: Base64Encode fails if the 'out_len' output parameter is passed with certain values

The Base64Encode function in coding-util.h with signature

  bool Base64Encode(const char* in, int64_t in_len, int64_t out_max,
      char* out, int64_t* out_len);

fails if '*out_len', when passed to the function, contains a value that
does not fit in a 32 bit integer.

Internally we use the

  int sasl_encode64(const char *in, unsigned inlen, char *out, unsigned
      outmax, unsigned *outlen);

function and explicitly cast 'out_len' to 'unsigned*'.

The error is that the called sasl_encode64() function only sets the four
lower bytes of '*out_len' (assuming that 'unsigned' is a 32 bit
integer), and if the upper bytes are not all zero, the resulting value
of '*out_len' will be incorrect.

This change changes the type of 'out_len' from 'int64_t*' to 'unsigned*'
to match the type that sasl_encode64() expects.

Base64Decode() is also updated to use 'unsigned*'. Before this change it
used an intermediate 32 bit local variable to avoid this issue.

Testing:
 - added a regression test in coding-util-test.cc

Change-Id: I35ae59fc9b3280f89ea4f7d95d27d2f21751001f
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/21271
Reviewed-by: Impala Public Jenkins <impala-public-jenkins@cloudera.com>
Tested-by: Impala Public Jenkins <impala-public-jenkins@cloudera.com>
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